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'It's 1900. Thirteen-year-old Issy McKelvie leaves school and starts her first job - very reluctantly - as a maid in an undertaking establishment. She thinks this is about as low as you can go. But there's worse to come.

'Issy becomes an unwilling rat-catcher when the plague - the Black Death - arrives in Australia. Issy loathes both rats and her father's four yappy, snappy, hyperactive rat-killing terriers. But when her father becomes ill it's up to Issy to join the battle to rid the city of the plague-carrying rats.' (Publisher's blurb)

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    • Sydney South, South Sydney area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2014 .
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      Extent: 240p.
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      • Published 1 March 2014
      ISBN: 9780732297138

Works about this Work

Review : The Ratcatcher’s Daughter Wendy Noble , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , June 2014; (p. 67)

— Review of The Ratcatcher's Daughter Pamela Rushby , 2014 single work children's fiction
Neverending Stories Paige Carfrae , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 11-17 June no. 984 2014; (p. 29)
[Review] The Ratcatcher's Daughter Lyn Linning , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 29 no. 2 2014; (p. 41-42)

— Review of The Ratcatcher's Daughter Pamela Rushby , 2014 single work children's fiction
Secret History Poppy Masselos , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 March 2014; (p. 34)
[Review] The Ratcatcher's Daughter Lyn Linning , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 29 no. 2 2014; (p. 41-42)

— Review of The Ratcatcher's Daughter Pamela Rushby , 2014 single work children's fiction
Review : The Ratcatcher’s Daughter Wendy Noble , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , June 2014; (p. 67)

— Review of The Ratcatcher's Daughter Pamela Rushby , 2014 single work children's fiction
Secret History Poppy Masselos , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 March 2014; (p. 34)
Neverending Stories Paige Carfrae , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 11-17 June no. 984 2014; (p. 29)
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  • Brisbane, Queensland,
  • 1891-1901
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